Cortland County Historical Society
Cortland, New York 13045
Phone: 607-756-6071
info@cortlandhistory.org
Cortland County Historical Society
About
Cortland County Historical Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving local history through documents and objects. CCHS operates from the 1882 Italianate home of inventor and real estate developer James Suggett. The Kellogg Memorial Research Library allows researchers access to historical materials that include city and county directories, newspaper articles archived by category, photographs, genealogies, DAR books, and various other sources. CCHS allows researchers to access these objects for both personal and professional reasons and works with the local college and schools to provide programs. CCHS's Suggett House Museum offers tours to learn more about the history of Cortland County.
Cortland County Historical Society is a member of the South Central Regional Library Council.
Collections
This collection contains a sampling from the thousands of Brockway Motor Truck Co. slides, photographs and negatives.
In the late 1980s, New York State considered Cortland County for a new low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) dump. Local residents protested and ultimately, there was no dump.
Postcards written by David Eugene Smith, an internationally acclaimed mathematician, to his niece and sister in Cortland.
Historical material from the New York Central College in McGrawville, the first college in the United States founded on the principle that all qualified students were welcome, regardless of sex or race.
This collection shares numerous stories from those living within Cortland County as well as those working or studying at the State University of New York College at Cortland. It primarily includes audio recordings and digitized scrapbooks.